Are you tired and stressed from all that room escaping? Well it's time to sooth those jittery nerves caused by all that construction and puzzle solving. Doesn't a restful day in the spa sound nice? Mind you, once you're in the locker room, it can be slightly difficult to find the pool. Okay, so you'll have to escape to get that nice relaxing soak! Welcome to Escape to the Spa by Tesshi-e. No one ever said relaxing was easy.

Escape to the Spa is a bit odd for an escape game in that you're not really escaping from or to anything (other than the usual mid-week blahs). Mostly you're just trying to find the pool, not unlike many a real spa. The action takes place in one of the nicest locker rooms ever seen. Of course, it is a spa after all, and probably an expensive one at that. All you have to do is solve several puzzles in order to get that long-delayed relaxation. Real spas, however, probably don't make their customers jump through as many hoops.

Navigation is the usual bars at the edges of the screen, and clicking on other areas or items can get you a close up. A handy "about item" button makes inventory control smooth and easy. Surprisingly, although there's some use of found objects, there is no construction to be seen. Pity there's no changing cursor, though, so be prepared for some pixel hunting.

Analysis: Tesshi-e always creates interesting escapes, whether you're trying to get a meal , or you've stumbled into an underground industrial area. Escape to the Spa is unusual for Tesshi-e; no construction or color puzzles are to be found. This is all use of found objects, pure logic, and math. A nice change.

You're in the usual Tesshi-e space: three dimensional, luxurious, with surfaces that beg to be touched. It all looks like a very upscale Japanese spa, from the fixtures to the warm wood floors and ceiling. The accompanying slow Jazz piano piece complements the game perfectly, interesting and yet soothing and relaxing, just the sort of thing to put you in the mood for a trip to the spa. And of course, it wouldn't be Tesshi-e without an alternate, "happy coin" escape.

With the positives come a few negatives. The game is in Japanese, although a few key English phrases will pop up when they are most needed. You don't need to be able to read Japanese to enjoy the game, though; everything is pure logic. Despite the lack of English, this is perhaps the most accessible of Tesshi-e's games. No color puzzles to confound the colorblind, and no construction to infuriate the mechanically inept. Just smooth music, a very Zen space, and lots of escaping logic to serve your casual gameplay needs. Get ready for a relaxing trip, complete with a nice hot soak waiting at the end.

I have a pink machine with a bunch of numbered boards in it, a couple of keys (used), a remote, a green coin, a stool, and a hat that for some reason I've filled with water.

I've already opened the cabinets under the sink and I've gotten the lightbulb to light up, revealing the number 4126. I've also used some of the numbered boards to open a couple of cabinets, though that seems to have been just blind luck. I found a pink star in 26.

What do I do? Is there some way to figure out all the other numbers of the cabinets so I can open more? Where do I use the number 4126?

I have a hat, coin, remote-control, 2 keys, balloon, locker-key dispenser, the wooden tube and the note it contained, and a stool. I've opened all the lockers. I've used the lightbulb and the screen-thingy on the wall, but I can't get it to light up.

The roman numerals in the baskets. Each of the corner baskets has a roman numeral in it, as well as the top corner lockers. I think if you could find all six roman numerals, you would be able to figure it out.

Oh my. Thanks to grinnyp, I just realized the cause of my dilemma, and fortunately for me, it is of no fault of my own. I think it could actually be considered a bug, in a sense.

The problem is this:

In the corner baskets, I see rectangles where you're telling me I should be seeing roman numerals. I now realize this is because the roman numerals in the baskets are overlaid text set in a font that I don't have installed.

This makes the text characters show up as rectangles, just like the Japanese kana that I don't have installed which are ever-present in the description box when I click on things in the game.

That would be the section of the walkthrough entitled "The Door Code". To be specific:

You find the door code by putting the light bulb in that weird recess to the right of the lockers, covering it with the screen that has a plaid border, and solving the light switch puzzle underneath to turn on the light. To be more specific:

grinnyp, if that was my problem, then I wouldn't even have asked in the first place as you just repeated what you wrote in the walkthrough. I did all of that, and escaped the game because you wrote the code in your walkthrough. But I could never actually SEE the code anywhere. Hence I ask where you are supposed to see it?

Well, I'll be! I had completely forgotten about that plaid thingy, and until now I had thought that you had meant the exit door by now when you talked about the plaid. And I had completely overlooked that I had that plaid in my inventory. Thanks!

So the hat and the green coin are only used to get the *68 clue? I missed that the first time, and was wondering why we got extra items. Though that kind of hat being able to hold water rather than it just soaking through and dripping out is weird in itself.

And to those having trouble with the fan...

Unlike some games, you don't just select the remote and click on the fan--you have to go into the 'about' view and press the button there to make it work.

Hi
I think the game is broken
Cause there's no balloon everywhere in the game
Just like atomic, I follow every single instructions in the walkthrough
But still, no balloon can be found
I guess the game is being screwed up
Someone should fix it
Thanks!

I didn't find the 68 note, I just used all the even numbers up to 32, some of which were already in the lockers. You can get the even number keys and then just try them in each locker until you find where they go. Was faster than trying to figure out the magic square number!

For those of you having font problems with the baskets, here's the solution I found posted for another Japanese game. (And considering that most escape games are Asian, it's just a good idea to do it.)

If you're running Windows XP, go to Control Panel, then Regional And Language Options. Hit the Languages tab, then check Install Files for East Asian languages. (You can also check Install Thai languages if you want to.) It'll ask you for your XP CD, and then you'll have to reboot after it installs it. Problem fixed! I'm guessing Vista has a similar method in adding the language support.

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